Maria Ramos(II)
- Director
- Writer
- Producer
Maria Augusta Ramos was born in Brasília, DF. Brazil in 1964. Graduated
in Music at UNB University (Brazil), she moved to Paris, where she
completed her studies in Musicology and Electroacoustic Music at the
Groupe de Recherche Musicale (Radio France) and later in London (City
University). In 1990, she moved to Holland, where she studied film
direction and editing at the The Netherlands Film and Television
Academy. She directed a number of shorts, including "Eu Acho que o que
Eu Quero Dizer é..." (1993); "Boy e Aleid (1994); "Two Times at Home"
(1996); "The Secret of the Vibrato" (1998); "Rio Um Dia em Agosto"
(2002); a series of 6 short films for Dutch TV "Butterflies in Your
Stomach" (1998); and the feature films "Brasília, Um Dia em Fevereiro"
(1995, Jury Award at the Rio Documentary Festival É Tudo Verdade);
"Desi" (2000, top winner of Holland's most important documentary
Festival); "justiça" (2004, winner of 9 international awards) and
"Juízo" (2008), the last two about Brazilian judiciary system.
